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The Nature of Creative Pluralism
Script I Cor. 12.1-13
Intro: I journeyed to London, to the timekept city.
Where the River flows with foreign flotations.
There I was told: we have too many churches,
And too few chophouses. There I was told:
Let the vicars retire. Men do not need the Church
In the place where they work, but where they spend their Sundays.
In the City, we need no bells:
Let them waken the suburbs.
I journeyed to the suburbs, and there I was told:
We toil for six days, on the seventh we must motor
To Hindhead or Maidenhead
If the weather is foul we stay at home and read the papers.
In industrial districts, there I was told of economic laws.
In the pleasant countryside, there it seemed that the country now
is only fit for picnics.
And the church does not seem to be wanted, In country or in Suburbs
and in the Town Only for important weddings.
T.S. Eliot is familiar lines given an image of the church inconsistent wit
the models we began to explore a few weeks ago in model making for adults.
His words lack the excitement of the:
I. Recapitulation of models.
A. Herald model: The churches is composed of ambassadors who have re
ceived an official message, They come in the name of the Lord. The
Good news is that God has reconciled all unto himself. The old war be
tween ourselves and God is over. Put aside your resistance. Your old
self is defeated, God desires to give you your real self.
B. Eliot's poem is in sharp contrast to the Pilgrim model whose ad
herents envision a future at the end time in which there shall be no mor
war, no more tears, no more poor. Like pilgrims in a foreign land so
the church seeks its home when Christ returns to make all things right.
Because the pilgrim knows how the story ends, and has a foretaste of th
at ending now, he uses the gifts God gives for survival in the interim
period, the present.
C. The Servant model is one in which the world writes the agenda. Comm
on service to the world unites the church. The world, no longer an adol
escent, but come of age seeks neither paternal nor maternal authority
to guide its moral life.
D. Finally the sacramental model in which the church receives its life
from God and willingly offers itself in brokenness, suffering, humility,
with towel and basin, bread and wine as a sacrament for the salvation
of the world.

The Nature of Creative Pluralism
Script I Cor. 12.1-13
Intro: I journeyed to London, to the timekept city.
Where the River flows with foreign flotations.
There I was told: we have too many churches,
And too few chophouses. There I was told:
Let the vicars retire. Men do not need the Church
In the place where they work, but where they spend their Sundays.
In the City, we need no bells:
Let them waken the suburbs.
I journeyed to the suburbs, and there I was told:
We toil for six days, on the seventh we must motor
To Hindhead or Maidenhead
If the weather is foul we stay at home and read the papers.
In industrial districts, there I was told of economic laws.
In the pleasant countryside, there it seemed that the country now
is only fit for picnics.
And the church does not seem to be wanted, In country or in Suburbs
and in the Town Only for important weddings.
T.S. Eliot is familiar lines given an image of the church inconsistent wit
the models we began to explore a few weeks ago in model making for adults.
His words lack the excitement of the:
I. Recapitulation of models.
A. Herald model: The churches is composed of ambassadors who have re
ceived an official message, They come in the name of the Lord. The
Good news is that God has reconciled all unto himself. The old war be
tween ourselves and God is over. Put aside your resistance. Your old
self is defeated, God desires to give you your real self.
B. Eliot's poem is in sharp contrast to the Pilgrim model whose ad
herents envision a future at the end time in which there shall be no mor
war, no more tears, no more poor. Like pilgrims in a foreign land so
the church seeks its home when Christ returns to make all things right.
Because the pilgrim knows how the story ends, and has a foretaste of th
at ending now, he uses the gifts God gives for survival in the interim
period, the present.
C. The Servant model is one in which the world writes the agenda. Comm
on service to the world unites the church. The world, no longer an adol
escent, but come of age seeks neither paternal nor maternal authority
to guide its moral life.
D. Finally the sacramental model in which the church receives its life
from God and willingly offers itself in brokenness, suffering, humility,
with towel and basin, bread and wine as a sacrament for the salvation
of the world.